What's more cringe: running shirtless in half tights or short shorts?

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I intend to do one the day I turn 70 and the other one the next day, unless I can handle doubles when I’m that age — in which case, both.

You chubby, bro?

It’s pretty obvious half tights. Who hasn’t done a long run shirtless in short shorts? Lol

it depends on your physique. as a muscle bound, ripped, powerful, athletic individual, I can get away with any kind of attire. I recently donned a borat mankini to the beach, people were blown away.

Short shorts and no shirt has pretty much been my standard running attire for the past 35 years once the temperature gets around 70F or warmer. Seems like it's pretty much the default of a great majority of the male runners I've known and have been around during warm weather.

We should outlaw half tights like Alabama has outlawed IVF

The no-go with short shorts is a shirt that’s a little too long.

running shirtless when it’s below 70 degrees is just showing off though.

Or a climate thing. As soon as it gets close to 60 here all of the HS kids are definitely shirtless and probably jumping in to the nearest body of water.

I run shirtless at that temperature for the Vitamin D benefits since it's so hard to get it in the northern hemisphere.

Way to run a thon is in a thong.

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For years I wore shorts and no shirt from when it was warm enough in May until it was too cold in September.

That was in the pre-half tight era. I think they're both acceptable.

My personal feeling (now that I'm 65) is that as you age you should wear a shirt because there are two reactions:

1. Ewwww old man put a shirt on.

2. Look at that old man trying to show off that he has a good enough physique to got shirtless.

But that's just for me (for the record I 3 years ago I dated a 36 year old woman who told me that I could run shirtless).

I have older friends who go shirtless and some of them look fine and some have too much hair and/or flabby guts and man-boobs to not be cringe inducing.

I like running with my shirt off wearing swishy nylon windpants.

But half tights and short short is great too...

A dozen years back I was in a van during a Ragnar and we passed a guy wearing half tights instead of shorts. No one else in the van had seen a guy doing that and they all burst out in hysterical laughter.

They’re more normal now, but not as normal as wearing short running shorts. I’m sure it still makes many non runners pause in confusion to see a guy just running in half tights.

I'll be 70 years old in a few months, running since June 1977.

I'll wear whatever is the most comfortable for the weather and whatever I can run fastest in.

Don't give a damn what other people's reactions are.

Sadly, both are terrible/fine depending on your body. It looks bad when old/fat people run shirtless with their guts flopping. Man boobs are not great.

Personally, I am now too fat to do either in public. I will do it now and then (if I am a little bit off the beaten path) but my kids would kill me if I did laps on their school track with my gross dad-bod flopping around. Singlets are a good option for people like me.

Like all things in life, some people can pull it off better than others.

p.s. When the elastic is cutting in, love-handles/muffin-tops are gross, so shirts are a must for some people (and not for others).

I've seen that. The full nylon sweat-pant bottom and hairy chest on the top. Classy!

Short-shorts and no shirt for easy runs and long runs, half tights and no shirt for workouts.

It's not what's on top that's cringe (to me), but whether we see the dong flopping around (especially in half thighs of the light color). It's even embarrassing to see on elites with chiseled bodies.